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fmall quantity of dung in confideration of its ex- 

 treme poverty. 



The whole was a wheat -ftubble ploughed in 

 before Chriftmas, and on the 15 th of March 

 ridged up in order to be planted, which was per- 

 formed on the 17th with the chain in rows three 

 links and a half diftant, and two links from bean 

 to bean in the rows; for they were planted fingly, 

 fo that a fpace of feven fquarc links, or three 

 fquare feet, was allotted to each bean. 



When about fix inches high, they were hoed, 

 and earthed up a little, but in a very bad manner, 

 the ground being rough and hard, which rendered 

 the work very tedious. 



The weeds grew amazingly, but notwithstand- 

 ing they pofTefled fo large a fhare of the ground, 

 the beans were in general five feet high, having 

 from twenty to feventy pods on a ftalk. I counted 

 the number from one fingle bean, and found them 

 to be 114, which, allowing on an average three 

 beans and a half to a pod, is 399. 



The crop was cut on the 28th of Auguft; but 

 being very green, they were continued in the 

 field to the 4th of September, and were then in 



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